Hop City Brewing Company Barking Squirrel

Barking Squirrel

 

Hop City Brewing Company in Brampton, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

  Lager - Amber / Vienna Regular
Score
6.12
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 24 Ticks: 95
Our multi award-winning flagship brew. Barking Squirrel has a distinct burnt orange colour and noble hop aroma. This amber lager is highly drinkable – a superbly smooth balancing act of hop bitterness and roasted caramel malt sweetness.
 

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6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
On tap at Toronto Airport. Copper with a tight white head; malty aroma; soft caramel malt taste; and a dry spicy bitterness to finish. Quite pleasant.
Tried from Draft on 05 Sep 2014 at 10:05

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, no bottle dating. Pours crystal clear amber/copper color with a 1 finger dense light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of caramel, toffee, toast, biscuit, brown bread, light nuttiness, plum, apple, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with well balanced dark/bready malt, earthy hops, and fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of caramel, toast, toffee, biscuit, brown bread, light nuttiness, plum, apple, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light amount of earthy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, toast, toffee, biscuit, brown bread, light nuttiness, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Good balance and robustness of dark/bready malt, earthy hops, and yeast ester flavors; with a nice crisp malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, crisp, and slightly bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish as expected of 5%. Overall this is a nice Vienna lager. All around good balance and robustness of dark/bready malt, earthy hops, and yeast ester flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Aug 2014 at 19:04

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Clear amber. Huge, frothy, offwhite head. Aroma has malt, hops and slight hint of butter. Flavour is smooth, caramelly. Light hoppy and spicy finish.
Tried on 19 Aug 2014 at 04:31

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Can from the LCBO. Clear dark amber with a tiny white head that quickly fades to a ring with some fine lace. Nose is toffee and vanilla. Sweet caramel and butter with a very light bitterness and some roasted nuttiness. Medium slick mouth with active carbonation.
Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2014 at 18:38

4.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Bottle, 5%. Clear amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel and grainy. Flavour is malt, caramel, grainy, hop, medium sweet, little grass and a little bitter.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jul 2014 at 09:20

5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. Pale amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is fruit, malt, hop, caramel. Flavour is the same. Medium body. Ordinary beer.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Jul 2014 at 22:40

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
On tap at The Snooty Fox. Pours a deep reddish amber color with a huge off white head that persists for a while. Aromas of bready pilsner malt with hints of caramel or burnt sugar. Rich bready maltiness with a fair bit of melanoid and spicy hop. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation. Nice malty rich lager, I enjoyed this.
Tried from Draft on 16 Jul 2014 at 19:33

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
(bottle, 35.5cl) Clear, amber to copper colour with a medium-sized and slightly tanned foamy head. Buttery and slightly bready malty aroma with notes of caramel, a nutty touch and woody hops. Bitter-sweet flavour, light to medium bodied with a moderate carbonation. Nutty and mildly bready toast-malty taste with notes of caramel, as well as hints of spicy, woody hops; moderately dry bitter-sweet caramelly and mildly spicy hoppy finish. Likeable Lager. 13.VII.14
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2014 at 12:23

4.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
On tap. Pours a deep copper color with moderate head. Aroma and flavors of thick sweet malts. Not much else.
Tried from Draft on 04 Jul 2014 at 18:03

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Canned, brought from Canada by friend. Pours amber with white head. Sweet, malty and grainy. Light bitterness. Expected a bit more.
Tried from Can on 03 Jul 2014 at 13:54